Making pasta alla Norma sauce ahead of time for dinner tonight. This has to be one of the best effort/result recipes ever. If you're a "non vegetarian", this is one vegetarian dish that is great on its own and isn't a dumbed down modification of a meat-based recipe.

• Dice an eggplant (the large ones, not the skinny Lebanese ones) and bake it at 150-180°C until it gets brown fringes (about 20 - 30 minutes)
• Fry up enough minced garlic (1 - 3 cloves or as much or little as you like) for about 30 seconds to a minute or so (just need it to soften a bit, we don't want any browning)
• Add the eggplant and tip in a 400g tin of tomatoes (diced, pulped, whole, with herbs, whatever). Stir and let it simmer for about 5 minutes to heat and combine (mash up any whole tomatoes while you're at it)
• Then use it how ever you want. I'm going to shake it through about 200g (dry weight) of cooked thin spaghetti.

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